June Gratitude – 2025

 “Gratitude sweetens even the smallest moments”

June is ending today, I am grateful that 6 months of the year will get over today, and a brand-new month is waiting to welcome all of us. It’s time for me to reflect and review the month of June and count all my blessings naming them one by one. This is one of my favorite duty to focus on the good, bad and ugly and practice gratitude.  

It was a busy month, lot of commitments of work and at the same the campus reopened and the students started coming to the college, with lively students hanging around all over the place. I loved the atmosphere due to the energy of so many youngsters moving around vibrantly.

I had students coming in regularly for counseling – one of the Professor, a great friend of mine keeps referring a lot of students for counseling. This time she came with fresh mangoes to thank me for my service in the campus. I am grateful for her thoughtfulness and acknowledgement of my services, even though she said it’s a small gesture – I felt very happy from within and accepted it gracefully. 

This month was St Anthony’s feast and Dorothy has been visiting the church regularly every Tuesday and spending time attending the mass and adoration in the chapel. I am grateful that she has developed faith for this particular saint and has been committed to visit every Tuesday.

I am grateful that Dorothy gained good health, as last month she was unwell and I had to take her to the doctor. This month she recovered faster – with her interviews and involvement in the choir and friends in touch helped her to get into the normal routine.

I am grateful for her as she helped David for the cataract surgery, the post operative care was completely managed by her for 3 weeks, she is truly a blessing in my life. As she is sensitive and responds quickly whenever there is help required either for me or David.

I am grateful for a extended family gathering this month – Davids’s cousin built a beautiful house and we had gone for the house warming. The place was 10-15kms approx. but slightly interior. I appreciated his cousin who could invest in a house early enough. 

He is less than 30 years old, lost his father and took responsibility to settle his elder sister, also got the second sister engaged and built this house, he does inspire me and I told him that I was proud of what he has done. We had a nice time meeting the other relatives too, chatted with everyone endlessly, as we don’t get to meet often enjoyed yummy food came home filled with gratitude.

I am grateful for the outing I had with my daughter one evening – her watch had stopped so we decided to visit the show room to get that sorted, the lady there was very friendly, kind and patient in showing so many different watches within our budget. Dorothy found a beautiful watch and she picked that up for herself. I am grateful for the lady by name Cecilia who helped Dorothy to find what she was looking for. 

This month our friends group planned for a short trip to Srilanka, our neighboring country. I was not sure whether I would make it. As I just went for a short trip last before month to Mahabaleshwar with my friends and was wondering whether I would be relieved.

I am grateful for my friend Aparna who motivated me and ensured that I joined the trip. Everything was worked out by her and another friend Amina – who planned and implemented this whole journey collaborating with Make my Trip. From booking the tickets, to getting the Visa and looking into the smallest details, they did everything. For which I feel grateful because we had a great trip, and Dorothy too enjoyed the trip.

I will make a separate travel post on my trip to srilanka – I am also grateful for this month, as Dorothy had got a call for the interview in one of the Degree Colleges, so she was busy preparing for the demo and the interview itself. There were other girls too for the post of a Lecturer to teach Psychology. I am glad and grateful that she was selected to teach in this college and it’s a coeducation. The campus is big with school, Junior college and degree college. 

I am grateful that she got the job and was asked to join in when the college reopens – meanwhile the whole process of verification of certificates everything was done online.

I am grateful that this month due to NAAC Visit (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) all the departments of the University were expected to submit reports of the last 3 Academic years. I was busy with this work as it had a particular format in which I needed to report. This work took a lot of my time, as I was checking the back records and collating the previous years work and entering the format. I am glad I could do it and also discuss with my Director, take her suggestions and incorporate the advice given and complete the work before I left for the holiday for a week.

I am also grateful for the body that functions so well – I took some routine tests -to check thyroid levels, cholesterol, hba1c and Hb. Everything was under control; also went for a routine eye checkup as I felt dryness – the doctor gave me eye drops to keep it moist, otherwise no major complains.

I was excited to travel with my friends, checking the utube and browsing for the places we were about to visit, whenever I had little free time. The visit to srilanka was a refreshing experience and I am glad and grateful for this opportunity. I came back happy, enthusiastic and energized to get back to my routine. 

I am grateful for my workspace and back to my counseling centre, there were students coming in regularly, and I am grateful I could participate in the session at Mahabub college, Secunderabad on the occasion of international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking. This programme was facilitated by the #YWCA of Secunderabad – the resource person Dr V George Reddy was excellent speaker who motivated the college students to stay away from substance abuse.

There was a wedding in the extended family – I was happy to go for this function as we get to meet a lot of people whom we don’t meet otherwise. Dorothy and my sister inlaw along with her daughter accompanied, we went for the reception and enjoyed being with everyone.

I am also happy to connect with my college mates, so we could share about our experiences of the trip to Srilanka, we met over a cup of chai and felt so happy and connected.

Thank you for reading my post! Hope you had a great month.

Be Blessed & Be Happy